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Favourite quotes (21448)

“Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Thought is free.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Variant: Life... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Source: Macbeth

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Thou art a very ragged Wart.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

Source: Henry IV, Part 2

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Iago, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Othello (1603–4)

“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream